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May. 25th, 2012 08:25 amGood morning! It's time for a FRIDAY PHOTO POST.
( Sexual aides, Marilyn Monroe, and Las Vegas. It's like I'm living the dream. )
( Sexual aides, Marilyn Monroe, and Las Vegas. It's like I'm living the dream. )
May. 25th, 2012
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May. 25th, 2012 07:03 pmUrgh, this story is going to be the end of me.
I haven't looked at Dead Isle in a week; I'm still collecting comments, and I know I haven't replied to the latest, but I needed a small break before re-tackling it. I've been fussing around with some fanfic but that's going nowhere; I thought I'd try working through my writing to-do list and landed on this one I'm calling Tunnel, which unless Valet catches on fire for me is probably going to be the next book I write.
I have the setting, basic concept, and something approaching a plot; I'm getting to know my protagonists. It's gonna be fun, all secret passages and magic maps and a dragon, social commentary, and a love story. It's just getting the damn thing jumpstarted.
Part of it has been a certain hesitance in how to tell the story: I've wanted to do it in shifting first-person POV, even though I know that's hard to do well and hard on the reader even when it is. Third-person omniscient is much easier. I've made the decision to rise to the challenge and give first-person a shot, but that doesn't mean I'm capable of just diving the fuck in.
All of my published work, Dead Isle included, has been a lot about identity, concealment of it, and revelation. Believe it or not, and laugh if you want, but I just noticed this today. It's not like I didn't know I was fond of that stuff, but I didn't realise how obsessive I've been about it. Tunnel isn't about identity, at least not so far, and not in the same way. This is good, it's an expansion of my focus, but it's also a struggle. For the most part my heroes are exactly what they claim to be, and the plot is about the way a city interacts with itself, the way classes within the city interact.
Sometimes I love the idea more than the work. I think that's natural enough for writers. But the work has to get done or the idea languishes. It's possible I'll need a push on it, which means not working on it any more until it's all I work on, but at least it's something different than rewrites to wrestle with for a little while.
As long as we're on the topic, I posted an essay over on my Wordpress today, Vocalizing Magic, where I talk about mystery's relationship to magic, and the gifts and consequences of pulling back the curtain.
I haven't looked at Dead Isle in a week; I'm still collecting comments, and I know I haven't replied to the latest, but I needed a small break before re-tackling it. I've been fussing around with some fanfic but that's going nowhere; I thought I'd try working through my writing to-do list and landed on this one I'm calling Tunnel, which unless Valet catches on fire for me is probably going to be the next book I write.
I have the setting, basic concept, and something approaching a plot; I'm getting to know my protagonists. It's gonna be fun, all secret passages and magic maps and a dragon, social commentary, and a love story. It's just getting the damn thing jumpstarted.
Part of it has been a certain hesitance in how to tell the story: I've wanted to do it in shifting first-person POV, even though I know that's hard to do well and hard on the reader even when it is. Third-person omniscient is much easier. I've made the decision to rise to the challenge and give first-person a shot, but that doesn't mean I'm capable of just diving the fuck in.
All of my published work, Dead Isle included, has been a lot about identity, concealment of it, and revelation. Believe it or not, and laugh if you want, but I just noticed this today. It's not like I didn't know I was fond of that stuff, but I didn't realise how obsessive I've been about it. Tunnel isn't about identity, at least not so far, and not in the same way. This is good, it's an expansion of my focus, but it's also a struggle. For the most part my heroes are exactly what they claim to be, and the plot is about the way a city interacts with itself, the way classes within the city interact.
Sometimes I love the idea more than the work. I think that's natural enough for writers. But the work has to get done or the idea languishes. It's possible I'll need a push on it, which means not working on it any more until it's all I work on, but at least it's something different than rewrites to wrestle with for a little while.
As long as we're on the topic, I posted an essay over on my Wordpress today, Vocalizing Magic, where I talk about mystery's relationship to magic, and the gifts and consequences of pulling back the curtain.